ah.. I see..Thank you for the link
Do you have any tips on how to do this for now (how to know that there is a newer version) to not run into problems like that?
Looking at each module page and then at each module's releases page individually is nearly impossible..

Just an idea.. How about making a post where you could add if new beta release is available and we can subscribe to that post?
It's impossible to keep up and know if there is a new release if "available updates" don't show them :) Any thoughts?

The list of all available releases is available on http://drupal.org/node/9058/release, and the module that reports any available updates for the modules installed on a Drupal-powered site lists also the beta releases that have been released.

As the update module doesn't mark a beta release as suggested update, I would not suggest to install a beta release too, if not testing it on a test site for some days.

I would not suggest to install a beta release too, if not testing it on a test site for some days.

... It's impossible not to install beta with this module as the beta version was the only one with the bug fix which is mentioned in this post...
(Edit): Do you recommend dev version over beta? Was this issue fixed in the dev version? I had that version before changing to beta because of this bug.

Yikes! No!
If you have to use the beta version, then test it on a test site; the development version is not suggested, as any update from a release of the development snapshot to the newer development update of the same branch is not supported.

Was this issue fixed in the dev version?

Yes, it was. Any official version is created from the development snapshot; once the development snapshot is update, an official release is created from its code.

Had the same problem. (Meta Tags/Description not getting saved to the database!)
Was using nodewords version 6.x-1.11.
Each time we attempted to input the meta data (keywords/description) at /admin/content/nodewords/meta-tags/default
fields erased on clicking save.

Updated to the Dev version 6.x-1.x-dev of Nodewords using command line: